That's an excellent question. In the past 10 years, there has been an increase in the number of promoters, companies that help people apply for the DTC on a fee-for-service basis. A few of them were charging egregious amounts and their fees had to be capped. The majority don't charge that much. I would liken their services to those of an H&R Block. I file my own taxes, but other people choose to pay for that service to be performed, and I think that's a free market right. So I'm not so concerned personally with what they charge.
They did cause an increase in the number of people becoming aware of the program and applying for the program, and that is certainly the cause of the increase in numbers of applicants. However, I want to be very, very clear in saying two things. First of all, the CRA has maintained to us consistently throughout our dialogue that it wants more Canadians who are eligible for the DTC to be accessing it. So I don't understand why there would be a problem with promoters helping Canadians who are eligible to know about the program, to work with their legitimate licensed medical professionals to be certified for it, and to apply for it. That's thing one.
Thing two is that I have been very careful to confirm that the pattern we were seeing was the same for the general population who were applying on their own behalf as it was for the population who were applying for the DTC with the support of promoters. I can confirm for you absolutely unequivocally that it was. In fact, if anything, those applying on their own were disallowed more often than were those applying through promoters.